15 December 2025
Webinar: “Exploring participation in citizen science for leadership identity development and food systems leadership: A case study of tricot”, 18 December
Join us for a webinar with Dr Bolanle Adebayo, who will share her research on how participation in citizen science contributes to leadership identity development and food systems leadership, using a tricot study carried out in Osun State, Nigeria.
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09 December 2025
Webinar: “Building horizontal networks of trust – research into the motivations of crop users to join tricot as on-farm researchers”, 11 December
Why do farmers choose to participate as citizen scientists in tricot on-farm trials and how can their motivations support more equitable, trust-based collaboration? Find out from our next webinar with Béla Teeken and Anna Müller.
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27 November 2025
Webinar: “Consumer-centric breeding – extending tricot as a participatory tool for mapping cassava trait preferences”, 4 December
Join us for our 16th webinar, where speaker Dr Cynthia Idhigu Aghogho will explore how the tricot participatory method, originally designed for farmer evaluations, was adapted to map consumer preferences for cassava quality traits.
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10 November 2025
Webinar: “Tricot experience in Nigeria with groundnut, pearl millet & sorghum”, 13 November
Join us for our 15th webinar, where speakers Dr Rekiya O. Abdulmalik and Dr Maryam A. Dawud will share how the tricot approach engaged farmers to evaluate elite sorghum, pearl millet, and groundnut genotypes across Nigeria’s drylands.
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03 November 2025
New article: “Examining gendered cassava trait preferences through commercial seed business: A case study of IITA GoSeed and Umudike Seeds in Nigeria”
A new article has been published on gendered cassava trait preferences based on a case study of IITA GoSeed and Umudike Seeds.
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16 October 2025
Webinar: “Breeding for social impact: Mapping cassava trait preferences through citizen science and farming typologies”, 23 October
Join us for our 14th webinar, where Dr Béla Teeken will discuss how citizen science and farmer typologies can steer cassava breeding toward real-world impact.
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18 September 2025
Webinar: “Demonstrating tricot analysis in R-Instat”, 25 September
Join Dr Lily Clements, Data Scientist and Educator from IDEMS International, for our 13th webinar in the 1000FARMS series to discuss “Demonstrating Tricot Analysis in R-Instat”. Dr Clements will demonstrate how to use R-Instat, a user-friendly R-based statistical software for tricot data analysis.
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18 July 2025
Webinar: “Field testing of the redesigned Farmer Feedback Sheet & Diploma for feedback after tricot trials”, 24 July
Join Juan Manuel Londoño and Dr Anna Müller from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT for our 12th webinar, which will explore how a redesigned Farmer Feedback Sheet can act not only as a data collection tool but also as a powerful medium for farmer engagement.
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07 July 2025
Webinar: “Group-based and citizen science on-farm variety selection approaches for bean growers in Central America”, 10 July
Martina Occelli, Research Associate at Cornell University’s Equitable Agricultural Research Lab, will join us for our 11th webinar in the 1000FARMS series to answer the question: How do different participatory research methods shape farmers’ outcomes?
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16 June 2025
Webinar: “On-farm testing in northern Ghana using the tricot approach: Successes, challenges, and way forward”, 19 June
Join us for our tenth webinar where Dr Theophilus Kwabla Tengey will lead a session on how triadic comparison of technology options (tricot) is transforming on-farm testing in northern Ghana.
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